Optimization of Day-Ahead Dispatch Time Resolution in Power System with a High Proportion of Climate-Sensitive Renewable Energy Sources

Abstract

The time resolution of scheduling plan refers to the length of each time interval in the scheduling plan. With the increasing proportion of climate-sensitive renewable energy sources (RES), the volatility of net load during the dispatch interval is significantly enhanced, resulting in an insufficient system climbing capacity and abnormal frequency. Therefore, the setting of time resolution at different renewable energy penetration rates becomes an urgent problem to be solved at present. A global sensitivity-based day-ahead dispatch time resolution selection optimization method is proposed to select the time resolution for different volatility grids. To achieve a balance between the degree of refinement and the accuracy of load prediction, the global sensitivity analysis method based on Sobol' method and sparse chaos expansion is used to evaluate the impact of net load volatility and uncertainty on dispatch at different time resolutions, and an appropriate time resolution is chosen to optimize the scheduling effect. The analysis and simulation results show that the choice of time resolution is mainly determined by the net load fluctuation rate. The appropriate time granularity is chosen according to the net load fluctuation rate, which minimizes the unbalanced power, and the purpose of improving the optimal scheduling effect and reducing the dispatching cost is achieved.

Keywords

• power system dispatch
• scheduling plan
• renewable energy sources (res)
• global sensitivity